macOS scripting

[zmughal]

• https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus
• https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg

21:04:34 [ sivoais] an Objective-C FFI doesn't seem too difficult from what I'm seeing in Ruby and Node. There seem to have been attempts in the past using XS, but they did not seem to hit CPAN and thus I'm not sure how well they are tested or completed.
21:08:48 [ sivoais] Perl examples: https://github.com/hoelzro/perl-objectivec, https://github.com/goccy/perl-motion, http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000076.php, http://camelbones.sourceforge.net/
21:10:38 [ sivoais] Node: https://github.com/TooTallNate/NodObjC, Ruby: https://github.com/rubycocoa/rubycocoa, Python: https://github.com/ronaldoussoren/pyobjc
21:14:18 [ sivoais] Lua: https://playcontrol.net/opensource/LuaCocoa/other-luaobjective-c-bridge.html
21:21:34 [ sivoais] There are several reasons to want to do this: running AppleScript, accessing OS services, building native GUIs for the desktop (and possibly iOS if the App Store permits), GUI testing.